On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 2009/6/15 Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com>: >> David, >> >> For frameworks, you may want to look at "achievement systems" and >> "reputation systems" (e.g. karma on slashdot). I just helped a >> colleague with his grant proposal about adding achievement systems to a >> peer review-based authoring environment, Expertiza, so we did some >> literature review for that. It's a well-developed topic in gaming and >> in internet-based community studies. It involves creating an "economy" >> of good deeds, basically. In more advanced systems, users can define or >> co-define which deeds are considered "good." > > Greg, is this something related to the assessment framework you > referred to the other day?
Absolutely. It seems to me that it all begins with one smart architectural decision: how do we share "assessment" data about kids, however we define it? It also seems to me that Ben had a very simple answer, that I like: 1. Dropping tuples into the journal, but doing so *consistently*, 2. Having a preferred method for synching certain pieces of journal data to a central repository. I would love to spend one of our hackfest days at Sugar in front of a gigantic whiteboard, imagineering various scenarios for awards / assessments / etc. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep